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U.S. Air Force Capt. Adam Ackerman, left, passes a pack of water bottles to U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Marvin Holmes while loading an Afghan MI-17 helicopter on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, for a sustenance resupply mission, Sept. 5, 2011. Ackerman is an MI-17 pilot advisor assigned to the 441st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, and Holmes is a logistics senior mentor assigned to the 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Adam Ackerman, left, passes a pack of water bottles to U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Marvin Holmes while loading an Afghan MI-17 helicopter on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, for a sustenance resupply mission, Sept. 5, 2011. Ackerman is an MI-17 pilot advisor assigned to the 441st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, and Holmes is a logistics senior mentor assigned to the 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Adam Ackerman, left, passes a pack of water bottles to U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Marvin Holmes while loading an Afghan MI-17 helicopter on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, for a sustenance resupply mission, Sept. 5, 2011. Ackerman is an MI-17 pilot advisor assigned to the 441st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, and Holmes is a logistics senior mentor assigned to the 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade.

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